Chapter 19
Lennon and Ben headed to work the next day, just like they always did. The easy way they’d fallen into this pattern, like the past ten years hadn’t happened at all, scared Lennon. It wasn’t that he didn’t like it. On the contrary, a part of him all but glowed as he walked down Binney Street with Ben by his side. The universe had been tilted for a full decade, and now it had righted itself again.
The only problem, of course, was that nothing was right. Ben hadn’t been by his side for years, he’d only been here for a couple of weeks. And maybe he was making all the right noises. Maybe he was tender and affectionate and protective.
That didn’t change the fact that Ben had left him behind. Ben had chosen the Agency over Lennon. He might say now that he regretted that decision, an
